An absolute beginner's guide to machine learning, deep learning, and AI

She paints and writes poetry. She's also an artificial intelligence from the movie Her, which imagines how a juiced-up Siri will change our lives. Now, tech companies large and small are racing to make this a reality. You've heard the jargon: AI, machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, natural language processing. What is artificial intelligence, or AI? AI, simply put, is an attempt to make computers as smart, or even smarter than human beings.